Gramck-Maybe thats where I went passed you then ? I know mish went passed me at the end of the sefton park loop and then I must have caught her up coming back down parliment street. I really enjoyed the whole day.

Alan -The only point I would make about getting to Birkenhead park was in James Street station there was only one guy on the till so it took a long time to get tickets. Maybe just like the parking at one if you could pay ahead online and then just have a print out ticket or ticket sent in the post people would have been able to get on an earlier train.

Alan-can you get the Duck tours to ferry us across to the start next time?

The exit from the Q Park at Liverpool 1 was a pain as I had to wait until 4 to leave and Im sure when I booked it said it would be possible to leave earlier.Next time(did I say That??) I will park away from the area so I can get a faster exit.

Saying that it was inspiring to hang around and watch the later runners finish. How can anyone run for that long? It must have taken so much out of them.

Gramck-Maybe thats where I went passed you then ? I know mish went passed me at the end of the sefton park loop and then I must have caught her up coming back down parliment street. I really enjoyed the whole day.

Alan -The only point I would make about getting to Birkenhead park was in James Street station there was only one guy on the till so it took a long time to get tickets. Maybe just like the parking at one if you could pay ahead online and then just have a print out ticket or ticket sent in the post people would have been able to get on an earlier train.

You'd have to take that up with the train company. Alan's good, but he's not responsible for staffing levels in the train station! No wonder so many people bought bus tickets! It seemed to work really well for those who decided to get the shuttle bus.

Alan-can you get the Duck tours to ferry us across to the start next time?

The exit from the Q Park at Liverpool 1 was a pain as I had to wait until 4 to leave and Im sure when I booked it said it would be possible to leave earlier.Next time(did I say That??) I will park away from the area so I can get a faster exit.

Saying that it was inspiring to hang around and watch the later runners finish. How can anyone run for that long? It must have taken so much out of them.

I too was handed a piece of paper telling me that I couldnt exit the car park until at least 4pm and I took a photo of the notice on the paying terminals to show Alan that Q park had no intention of letting anyone out any earlier but I haven't shown him yet. As I left after 4pm I have no idea if you COULD get out earlier than that. I know Alan certainly thought you could. Even when I did leave nearer to 6pm the traffic was still one exit lane only and it was very busy.

The piece of paper DID state that the Strand would be closed until after the marathon, which led people to believe they were 'stranded' See what I did there? It's just misinformation. And is Q park's fault.

All - I didn't mean the train ticket point as a critisism of Alan and his team unless of course he also works for Mersey rail. wasn't really a problem for me anyway just would have been quicker if I had a ticket ahead of time and could have gone through the barriers. If I do the race next year (and I probably will) I think I will order a ticket ahead of the event but of course that is up to me to sort

Also I parked on Q Park one and left at not long after 1pm, no one stopped me and I was on my way out of Liverpool in about 10 mins. I also came out of the exit right next to the finish line and didnt have a problem

Is anyone else on runbritainrankings? I can't believe all those months of training and putting in a 3:40:45 marathon only moved my handicap down by 0.1, yet if I trot round a 5k Park Run in 22 mins it will reduce it by 1.1!! How can that be right???

Anyway, aches and pains now pretty much all gone, so I'll probably go out for a gently few miles today - seems like ages since I last ran!!

I thought the marathon was really well organized, this was my second one and through the pain managed to enjoy the friendly support and great senery. I thought the exit to the tunnel was fantastic and gave me goosebumbs! i will defo be coming back again, the shuttle bus and early car park pass just allowed me to take in the atmosphere with out stressing about being on time!!!!! I manaaged a p.b. 3.35 which i was really happy with........A great experience!

Definitely right about that goosebumps moment coming out the tunnel, it completely got me and I had to applaud the music and crowd back.

As a debut marathon runner who has preferred shorter distances, 10k mainly, and who came back from injury with limited time to train but did happily complete the marathon aka run - run - walk - run - walk - stretch - walk - run - what tips do people have for getting back into running after a marathon?

As of Wednesday I can walk quite easy, minus a bruised foot from where my podiatrist insert left a mark, but if that keeps backing off I was hoping to get back into it next week. Though stick to the shorter stuff and some speed work (Marathons back on the cards in 2014 maybe).

This may be attracting being shot down but I didn't think that there was much of an atmostphere at the start - nothing I really noticed anyway. I appreciate that the Liverpool marathon isn't the London marathon but I went to a tiny 10k race (less than 200 people in a tiny little village in Yorkshire) a couple of weeks ago where there was music on the loudspeakers and there was someone who does exercise classes doing the warmup and his enthusiasm infected everyone.

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